Hering Prop
 

I received my Herring prop what a awesome prop. Wont be able to try her out till spring. Whats crazy it cost less than a Mercury Racing lab Maximus prop??? It will be interesting to see how the prop performs compare to the Maximus prop. I be happy if it does not throw a blade at my SCX case like the Maximus did... Upper Case + New Prop = Lots of $$$$$.

Nice looking prop. Like the logo on it.

Maximus props carry the front end of a race boat more than anything I've ever used...Never tried them in a pleasure application, they may work well for that?! A Merc prop is not even in the same league as Hering. When we did vibration testing on bravo drives; the Hering's had massively less vibration than anything else! Money well spent mate!
Cheers

I had the Hering built to act like a Maximus I hope. I did go with 15-1/2" on the Herring instead of 15-5/8" that I had on Maximus. I went with a 22 degree rake to carrie the bow.

bada$$ looking!

Hope it performs as good as it looks!

Anyone do any testing on an outbaord skater- merc lab prop vs. a herring? And if so any difference in speed/ handling?

what kind of boat??

30' skater

what he said :drink::drink::drink::drink:


ROCK ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS A SKATER NATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:coolcowboy:

Brett Anderson @ BBlades is who Id recommend to talk to about props for an outboard cat....he got the best results for my AMT. Service is excellent which makes it a pleasure doing business with him.

We've been using Herring on the MTI and have had very good experiences with them as well.

Agreed...my bad
We are running all Herring now, excellent performance, great service....

Best of luck with your prop she's a beut......since you cant run it till spring maybe consider putting it on top of the Christmas tree, would make one bad azz shiny star.

umm wonder if I can get away with that

Looks great!:drink:

Oh yeah...looks awesome :drink:

I did some a bit of testing for our twin o/bo 30ft dcb. My performance and top end number are obviously going to be a bit different as it's an open deckboat but there are similarities.

We tested a bunch of props from merc and hering when we first went to water test our boat.

Mercs were all ok, just about 10 mph slower than what we ended up with.

We tested the 5 blade hering cleaver which significantly improved mid-range and acceleration but as speeds got over 75 the stern was way loose and the boat felt unsafe as we got to top speed. Wish these had worked because we picked up 5 mph in the mid-range cruise though top end was about the same or slightly less than the 4 blades.

We ended up with the 4 blade hering cleavers. Top end 94 mph.

This past summer I did pick up a pair of the Merc's newer labbed bravo 1 xs props that we use for more everyday use. with the wider and vented hub we reduced cavitation and improved our time to plane by HALF, but did lose about 4-5 mph on the top end.

The top end loose is acceptable to me for the time and ease to plane with my usual full weekend loads of the dogs, people, gear, food, and beverages and as I won't run it WOT with dogs on board it's not a big issue.

For pokeruns like JOTJ, I put the herings back on.